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I'm not personally familiar with this distribution, but according to their support site, it should be the file /etc/network/interfaces. You can find more detailed information here: https://support.mvista.com/DocViewer...ace_intro.html
Search for Configure a Minimal Network, and it lists required files that must be in place along with examples of those configuration files.
This one has me really baffled, if I issue the command ifconfig I can see that eth5 has an ip address of 192.168.20.7.
According to the documentation the file /etc/network/interfaces sets up each Ethernet interface, when I open this file with vi it only mentions eth0 and all lines are commented out.
eth5 is the interface I wish to change the ip address of but I really cannot find where this is set.
and populate with the correct information. I would then do ifconfig eth5 down and ifconfig eth0 up.
If this doesn't work, I am out of ideas... If you still have problems, let me know and I will download an ISO and create a VM and see if I can get it resolved for you. If you need me to do this, please send me a link to download the specific version that you are using.
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